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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is having this experience at Smith. Small classes from the first year with professors who get to know all the students. Even her lab first year was staffed by a professor, there are no grad student TAs. I imagine many other LACs are similar. [/quote]

Do low quality phds end up as professors  in these schools?
Surely, ambitious and brilliant professors won’t like to be bogged down by drudgery of taking undergraduate classes and responding to similar questions year in year out.[/quote]

+100 to PP who called out this post.  Places like Smith are dream jobs for most PhDs.  'Low-quality' PhDs don't get any jobs at all.  Even the worst jobs attract top-flight candidates under most circumstances.[/quote]

Yes. Each opening for a history prof, for example, gets "a median of 82 and a mean of 122" applications per position. At top-ranked or even decent schools, that number could be a lot higher. And the applicants are already people who were admitted to and received a PhD, both of which are very difficult.

(Numbers from 2019, but are similar today: https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/the-2019-aha-jobs-report-a-closer-look-at-faculty-hiring-february-2019/ )[/quote]

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